. Historic towns of the Southern States. any place else in the World. To saunterthrough the streets of Y^ Ancient City of An-napolis is to take a University Extension course 47 48 Annapolis in American history ; to gaze upon her oldhouses is to behold the finest type of colonialarchitecture ; while to read her annals is to befired with the truest patriotism and to minglein the best society of the picturesque days oflong ago. From our New World point of view, An-napolis is very old, dating back to 1608, whenCaptain John Smith, exploring the Chesa-peake Bay, sailed up the Severn in search offavo
. Historic towns of the Southern States. any place else in the World. To saunterthrough the streets of Y^ Ancient City of An-napolis is to take a University Extension course 47 48 Annapolis in American history ; to gaze upon her oldhouses is to behold the finest type of colonialarchitecture ; while to read her annals is to befired with the truest patriotism and to minglein the best society of the picturesque days oflong ago. From our New World point of view, An-napolis is very old, dating back to 1608, whenCaptain John Smith, exploring the Chesa-peake Bay, sailed up the Severn in search offavorable sites for settlements. She is for-tunate in the fig-ures that stand onher threshold, fornext after the gal-lant Captain comethe noble Calverts—George, Cecilius,Leonard, thanwhom were neverlordlier men. ToCecilius, pledgesmade to his fatherGEORGE CALVERT, FIRST LORD BALTIMORE. Were redeemed REPRODUCED FROM AN OLD PRINT. whpn if! T(S*> Charles I. made him vast grrants of lands be-yond the Atlantic, in return for which all that. Annapolis 49 was asked was allegiance to the English Crown ;one fifth of all gold and silver to be discoveredin the new do-main, and an an-nual offering, tobe made atWindsor Castleon Easter Tues-day, of two In-dian arrow-heads. Thecharter thusgiven was thefreest ever be-stowed upon anycolony, and inreturn Lord Bal-timore namedhis new posses-sions in honor of Queen Henrietta Maria,whose bigotry and arrogance had so much todo with the loss of her husbands crown andlife, and which — so strange are the relationsof cause and effect — formed one of the broadfoundation stones on which the modern super-structure of civil and religious freedom November 30, 1633, two little ships, the
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